Lesson from Mayor's June Podium

[LV Bear]

Casino personnel are not, and cannot, be your friends.
Casino personnel are not, and cannot, be your friends.
Casino personnel are not, and cannot, be your friends.
Casino personnel are not, and cannot, be your friends.
Casino personnel are not, and cannot, be your friends.

Repeat one hundred times.

 

[The Mayor]

It was kind of a whining podium, but I wanted to just get it out.

In the end, it isn't what other people do to you, it's how you to react to it.

I think I'll repeat that mantra a few more times...

--Mayor

 

[learning to count]

The snake and the old women.

Oso is right Mayor the casino pit critter I liken to a Snake. Once there was an old mexican women who lived in the mountains of Mexico. One day as she was walking on a trail on a high peak she came upon a partially frozen rattle snake. The snake looked up with sadness. The old women bent over and picked the snake up and put in her clay pot and took it back to her hut. The old women warmed the snake and fed it. In time the snake gained some of its strength back. The old women took the snake outside to let him slither around for excercise she would then pick him up and rub his belly and even hand feed him a rat or two. The snake soon gained a hundred percent of his strength. One day the old women took him out for a long walk. The snake was coiled up in the clay pot. The women stopped by a stream and put the pot down. The old women reached in to pull out the snake so he could excercise. As she grabbed the snake he whipped around and sank both fangs deep in her wrist. Both fangs peircing her veins and arteries. The stored up venom flowed in the wounds. As the old women lay there the snake bit her numerous times. The old lady asked the snake why he was doing this after she befreinded him, saved his life, and raised him like a son. The snake looked at her with a venom dripping smile and said "what do you want old women I am a RATTLE SNAKE AND I BITE THATS MY NATURE". The old women shed a tear and as she passed on she muttered "and I thought we were freinds".

 

[Rob McGarvey]

Re: The snake and the old women.

Just imagine a snake that bit the entire human race. Some are greedy, some want power, some want pleasure, some like to cause others pain, some like to steal, to lie, to create trouble for others. That's in our nature. Not all of the time, just enough to make us, well, human.

Nice run down of the old advantage plays that used to be available Mayor. You boys sure no how to keep a lid on the better secrets out there.

rattle rattle

 

[wong out]

I know that I will be out of line with the mainstream on this topic. But is sounds to me like the Mayor's friend did what he could to get the Mayor back in but was overruled by his management. The Mayor is disappointed because he interprets the lack of a response to repeat phone calls etc as a lack of "friendship." Put yourself in the casino manager shoes for a moment. You have this guy (who you think is a friend) who you tried to do a favor for and were overuled; nothing more you can do and you feel abit embarrased.

Now the guy is trying to get of hold of you and all you can do is give the bad news and maybe at this point you are wondering why you tried to help this guy out at all. I mean if he were a real friend then he would understand that you did what you could and not hold it against you. Anyhow I agree with the Bear on this point; you can't have any real friends on the other side of the tables. Their livelihood is preserved by staying within the good karma of their management and in the final analysis they are not going to stake their kids braces, college tuition, or ability to keep the little lady happy for some "friend" that they met in a casino. Isnt going to happen; just like I am not going to lay off of a place with a good game because I have a rapport with the casino mgr, etc. The moola I make playing is more important to me than any "friend" that I make in the casino. I have found that I am either loved or hated in the casino anyway and dont consider it a prime place to make friends.

If the Mayor really thought of the CM as a friend; he would leave him a msg to the effect, "that he understood that they guy couldnt do anything and appreicated his efforts and no problem and invite him out for a beer or something." Friends dont just pop in and out based on what they can or cannot do for you.

Like I say put the shoe on the other foot for the moment and dont think that you build friendships in the casino.

my 2.5 cents..

wong out